What to Know About South African Egg Donation

What You Need to Know About Egg Donation Egg donation or oocyte donation is a relatively new and private topic. It is a specialised type of fertility treatment available to people who cannot conceive with their own eggs. This would apply to woman in early menopause, those who have had their ovaries removed, woman with poor quality eggs and who are no longer producing eggs. Single men or homosexual males also seek the assistance of egg donation.

It is a very confidential matter - even within the families of recipients and egg donors. The physical traits of egg donors are carefully matched to recipients, enabling the child to grow up in an environment where the topic of egg donation need not become known to any one else.

Egg donors are extensively screened to ensure that they are medically suitable. This is done by blood tests and an internal scan. Once all is set, the donor and recipient's menstrual cycles are aligned so that the recipient's body is behaving as per the donor's.

When ready to start, the egg donor takes medication to stimulate egg and follicle development. This commences on day 2 or 3 of her cycle. The recipient will at the same time be taking hormones to ensure that her body is getting ready for pregnancy. These may include oestrogen to build a good lining of at least 8mm and progesterone from the day of egg retrieval. This will ensure that the pregnancy can be maintained and suffices as food/ nutrition for the embryos. The dose of progesterone doubles on the day of embryo transfer.

Embryos are usually transferred five days after the egg retrieval, but may be transferred on the sixth day, depending on the development. It is ideal that the embryo has reached a blastocyste stage, implying that the embryo has started to hatch out of the shell. The recipient maintains this hormone intake and has a pregnancy test 17 days after egg retrieval.

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